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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>EZEKIEL</span>
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CHAPTER 21
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Both the righteous and the wicked in Jerusalem shall be slain—Babylon draws a sharp and bright sword against Israel and shall prevail.
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And</span> the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, set thy <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/21/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 20: 46.">face</a> toward Jerusalem, and <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/21/2b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR preach against.">drop</a> <i>thy word</i> toward the holy places, and prophesy against the <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/21/2c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Israel, Land of.">land</a> of Israel,
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And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; Behold, I <i>am</i> against thee, and will draw forth my <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/21/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 1: 13.">sword</a> out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
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Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
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That all flesh may know that I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/21/5a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE be sheathed.">return</a> any more.
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Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of <i>thy</i> loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
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And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou?  that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/21/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 7: 17.">hands</a> shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak <i>as</i> water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>.
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&#182; Again the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/21/9a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR polished.">furbished</a>:
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It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth?  it contemneth the rod of my son, <i>as</i> every tree.
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And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/21/11a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB seized by hand.">handled</a>: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
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Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it <i>shall be</i> upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon <i>thy</i> thigh.
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Because <i>it is</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/21/13a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR time of testing.">trial</a>, and what if <i>the sword</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/21/13b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB reject.">contemn</a> even the rod?  it shall be no <i>more,</i> saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>.
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Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite <i>thine</i> hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it <i>is</i> the sword of the great <i>men that are</i> slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.
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I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that <i>their</i> heart may faint, and <i>their</i> ruins be multiplied: ah! <i>it is</i> made bright, <i>it is</i> wrapped up for the slaughter.
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Go thee one way or other, <i>either</i> on the right hand, <i>or</i> on the left, whithersoever thy face <i>is</i> set.
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I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/21/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 5: 13; 3 Ne. 21: 21.">fury</a> to rest: I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> have said <i>it.</i>
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&#182; The word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came unto me again, saying,
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Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose <i>it</i> at the head of the way to the city.
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Appoint a way, that the sword may come to <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/21/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 49: 2; Ezek. 25: 5 (4-5); Amos 1: 14.">Rabbath</a> of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
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For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made <i>his</i> arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
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At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/21/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 4: 2."><i>battering</i></a> rams against the gates, to cast <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/21/22b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR siege mounds.">a</a> mount, <i>and</i> to build <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/21/22c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR siegeworks.">a</a> fort.
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And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/21/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 17: 20 (20, 24).">taken</a>.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/21/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 3: 9.">transgressions</a> are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, <i>I say,</i> that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/21/24b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE captured.">taken</a> with the hand.
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&#182; And thou, profane <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/21/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 36: 12 (12-13).">wicked</a> prince of Israel, whose <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/21/25b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 22: 3.">day</a> is come, when iniquity <i>shall have</i> an end,
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Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; Remove the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/21/26a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB headdress, or mitre.">diadem</a>, and take off the crown: this <i>shall</i> not <i>be</i> the same: exalt <i>him that is</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/21/26b" mark="b" type="A" title="Luke 1: 52.">low</a>, and abase <i>him that is</i> high.
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I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no <i>more,</i> until he <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/21/27a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Second Coming.">come</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/21/27b" mark="b" type="D" title="The Hebrew word shiloh may be a short form of asher-lo, which can be rendered ‘whose right it is.’">whose</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/21/27c" mark="c" type="A" title="Gen. 49: 10.">right</a> it is; and I will give it <i>him.</i>
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&#182; And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span> concerning the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/21/28a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 49: 2 (1-2).">Ammonites</a>, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword <i>is</i> drawn: for the slaughter <i>it is</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/21/28b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR polished.">furbished</a>, to consume because of the glittering:
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<sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/21/29a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE while they see for you false visions.">Whiles</a> they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of <i>them that are</i> slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity <i>shall have</i> an end.
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Shall I cause <i>it</i> to return into his sheath?  I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
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And I will pour out mine <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/21/31a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Indignation of.">indignation</a> upon thee, I will blow against thee in the <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/21/31b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 22: 21 (20-21).">fire</a> of my <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/21/31c" mark="c" type="A" title="D&C 43: 26.">wrath</a>, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, <i>and</i> skilful to destroy.
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Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no <i>more</i> remembered: for I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> have spoken <i>it.</i>
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